Example sentences of "if [pron] be [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe without fully recognising it , the government has , in fact , started talking to the ANC — for if there is one thing Mr Mandela has made clear throughout his long incarceration , it is his unwavering allegiance to the movement , whose foremost leader he remains . |
| 2 | IF THERE is one thing Joe Jackson particularly dislikes , it is being made a fuss of . |
| 3 | And if there is one thing that West London hotels particularly enjoy , it is making a fuss of Joe Jackson . |
| 4 | If there is one thing that Japanese managers respond to , it is this sort of pressure . |
| 5 | If there is one thing murkier than how insider-trading law applies to debt securities , it is the market for those securities . |
| 6 | Now if there is one thing I absolutely can not stand , it is snoring . |
| 7 | If there is one thing that sprinters really like , it is hot sunshine ! |
| 8 | ‘ If there is one thing that Sweden taught me , it was to hang in there and not let my head go down , even if I do n't play particularly well . |
| 9 | Indeed , if there is one thing surer than a pre-Christmas ad for turkey stuffed with Paxo it 's a post-Christmas campaign for yet another Rosemary Conley thin-thigh theory . |
| 10 | The publicity spoke of there being no lesson in the film : Bogart was quoted as saying that ‘ if there is one thing that has no place in theatrical show it is an attempt to preach ’ , but no member of the audience could miss the point of this film . |
| 11 | If there is one thing more disagreeable than removing the bovine afterbirth it is watching somebody else doing it , and I always try to maintain a conversation as I grope around inside . |
| 12 | All those seeds and apples were V , virile , and X , extremely bitter to the taste — not to say inedible — because of all the insects in them , which , since , Ketone-Etone-Methyl-Tri-Di-Meta-post-Oxy-Chlorane had been banned , flourished alarmingly ; if there is one thing more off-putting than finding a maggot in your apple it is finding half a maggot in your apple . |
| 13 | In March 1990 , the Secretary of State for Wales vehemently denounced rates and said : ’ If there is one thing which unites Conservatives everywhere it is our deep and abiding abhorrence of the rating system . |
| 14 | She sniffed , and smiled a bit , but not too much because if there is one thing worse than someone who does n't understand you it 's someone who understands perfectly , before you 've had a chance to have a good pout about not being understood . |
| 15 | Likewise , it is submitted that no modern court would say as Sir George Jessell MR did in Printing and Numerical Registering Co v Sampson ( 1875 ) LR 19 Eq 462 : … if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting , and that their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily shall be held sacred and shall be enforced by courts of justice . |
| 16 | ‘ If there is one thing I definitely need at this moment , it is a commentary on Italian traffic from a girl from the American midwest . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ And if there 's one thing he 's not , it 's cheap … ’ |
| 18 | If there 's one thing I 've learned out of the past six years , it 's that anybody can get out of anything if they try hard enough . ’ |
| 19 | If there 's one thing better than an icy plunge it 's a decadent soak in a scented bath . |
| 20 | If there 's one thing worse than a poor singer , I do n't know what it is . … ’ |
| 21 | Lies , Douglas , if there 's one thing I ca n't thole it 's a lie . |
| 22 | ‘ If there 's one thing the Trunchbull ca n't stand it 's pigtails , ’ Hortensia said . |
| 23 | That talent was presumably the main reason for his appointment , and that 's only right and proper because if there 's one thing England can learn from Bob Dwyer , it is that you sometimes have to be prepared to let a young side lose in the short-term to gain in the long-term . |
| 24 | IF THERE 'S ONE thing for sure it 's that backpacking makes you ravenous . |
| 25 | And if there 's one thing that really bugs me , it 's trendy , middle-class liberals like those who write in Hot Press and their apologies for Provos , puffs , poets , transvestites and assorted other wankers . |
| 26 | If there 's one thing that disgusts me it 's cold porridge . |
| 27 | If there 's one thing that is clear about desktop publishing it is that it is NOT publishing , a fact that often seems to escape those who sell it . |
| 28 | They like things to be loud and dramatic , and if there 's one thing you ca n't have in good sorcery , it 's loud noises and drama . |
| 29 | ‘ If there 's one thing I pride myself upon it 's my disgust of prying women . |
| 30 | If there 's one thing I think I 'm sure of , it 's the fact that I must marry Selina . |